Masters Of The Telecaster ROY BUCHANAN | Hey Joe Live at Austin City Limits Austin, TX November 15, 1976 Leroy "Roy" Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career and two later solo albums that made it to the Billboard chart. He never achieved stardom, but he is still considered a highly influential guitar player. Guitar Pl

Roy Buchanan performs a slow blues piece from a TV Show from the 70's. When he was asked where he learned his almost vocal like playing technique on the Telecaster, Roy Buchanan responded, more than once, that it was because he was "half-man, half wolf". Even though Roy was a notorious story-teller, there were certain wolf-like aspects about him from his almost painful shyness to a stalking stage presence and an attitude that seemed to roll from docility to a ferocity like a flipped switch, none